Cob Jockey

Sometime in the next two years, I'm going to buy a pony.  I want to know that I have a solid place to put him, with a good Dressage and/or Eventing or H/J trainer for us.  Ideally a combination of the former, but I know I can't be that picky.  But I can't find a single thing around here!



All I can find around here are marginally qualified people running bottom barrel 4H lesson stables, and facilities claiming to be "western and english" with a picture of a guy with a cigarette in his mouth holding a toddler on a pony that's not wearing any tack or halter.  Yeah...

Why is this so hard?  We're only an hour from Indianapolis.  I did find a good looking lesson stable, but it's 45 minutes away - okay for a weekly lesson, not so good for boarding.  I may have to resign myself to taking lessons somewhere other than my boarding barn, and finding someone's backyard to put my horse in.

No matter what, I do not want my horses on my own property.  Not yet, anyway.  I'm young and mobile, and one of the reason's I'm willing to shell out $400 a month for board is for the priviledge of, you know, going on weekend trips without mobilizing a small army to care for my pets.  No one seems to understand that, as my in-laws keep telling me about farms for sale, and my husband talks about having the horses in the backyard.  I need an arena, and jumps, and for those you need a lot of money, and a tractor, and jumps, and it's just not worth it to  me.

Plus, I want friends.  Horse friends.  I miss college.